Week 3: Storytelling and Our Connections

This week’s reading was onDigital Storytelling. These resources were super helpful while working on our digital story. There were a lot of take-a-ways that I received from the resource of The Science of Digital Storytelling. One take-a-way is storytelling is a way that you can convince someone to want to work for you. Once a person can take your story and turn it into their own experience, they will be more willing to work for you and take their work seriously. Also keeping a story simple, this is something that I struggle with. I like to fill my stories with lots of details. Over filling my story with details, drown the story out and can have the potential to lose my audience. Lastly, I really like how they pointed out that over used phrases. The example was I am having a “rough day.” Instead of using that phrase, we should elaborate on the story, how was it rough, what things did we have to deal with. That will help the listeners engage with our story.

I also found the resource, Digital Storytelling Across Curriculum was super helpful. The article broke down all the different types of storytelling. I am choosing to use the describe and conclude method for my digital story. Describe and conclude is when you tell a story, and then describe how it affects us. I also think that my story might be a blend of “living the story” as well. Which can be informative literacy, visual literacy, sound literacy, and technical literacy.  Or it can be about teamwork or project management. I also loved how the resource, Kathy Schrock's Digital Storytelling gave so many different resources to create a digital story, my favorites were Domo Animate, Zimmer Twins, and Shmuppet. I also use the resources to organize my thought and brainstorm my ideas.  

These resources will be super helpful to me as a teacher in the future. Using all these websites to create fun, interactive, and education videos will help the students learn to their best ability. Even without the use of technology, using story to help students with math or social studies. The use of storytelling in math can help students understand when to regroup when subtracting or adding numbers. I also find in class when students get stuck in social studies, they tend to understand when you tell a story that features them or myself, helps the student connect to the lesson.